PESHAWAR: Around 300 families fled sectarian violence on Saturday (Nov 23) in northwest Pakistan as fresh sectarian clashes killed another 32 people.
Shiite Muslims hold placards and shout slogans during a protest march against the sectarian attacks in Kurram district in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Lahore on Nov 22, 2024. PESHAWAR: Around 300 families fled sectarian violence on Saturday in northwest Pakistan as fresh sectarian clashes killed another 32 people.
Another senior administrative official told AFP on condition of anonymity that"fighting between Shiite and Sunni communities continues at multiple locations", with 32 people killed in clashes on Saturday, including 14 Sunnis and 18 Shiites. Relatives transport a dead body of a victim who was killed in sectarian attacks in Kurram district at a Shitte Muslim mosque in Parachinar, the mountainous Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Nov 22, 2024. Rehan Muhammad a 33-year-old journalist from the Sunni-majority area of Bagan in Kurram, had to flee his home as clashes worsened.
"At dawn, someone shouted that the attackers had left. When I returned, nothing was left. All that remained of my house was a pile of charred debris."A senior administrative official in Kurram told AFP that the attacks"resulted in the destruction of 317 shops and over 200 homes".A senior Kurram police officer said that"around 7pm , a group of enraged Shiite individuals attacked the Sunni-dominated Bagan Bazaar".
However, another official said the district does"not have enough police and administrative staff" in the area, where the federal government and provincial authorities in Peshawar struggle to impose their law. Previous clashes in July and September killed dozens of people and ended only after a jirga, or tribal council, called a ceasefire. HRCP said 79 people died between July and October in sectarian clashes.
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